The Chicken Coop Theory of arousal: a neuromodulatory framework for teaching consciousness architecture, clinical pharmacology, and state-space pathology.
Advances in physiology education September 1, 2026 Felipe Heemann
NEW & NOTEWORTHY The Chicken Coop Theory formalizes arousal as a position in a six-dimensional neuromodulatory state space rather than a switch controlled by any single system. Histaminergic latching, cholinergic warming, noradrenergic startling, dopaminergic dispensing, serotonergic nesting, and orexinergic anchoring are each grounded in a functional invariant, and six canonical clinical...